In the book Huck Finn, Mark Twain not only writes about the adventures of a young boy, he depicts the struggle that people had to go through in that time period. That is just one of the reasons why some people consider Mark Twain to be the greatest American author of all time.         As I was reading the book Huck Finn I started to agree more with what Mencken had to say 'Put him beside …showed first 75 words of 622 total…

…showed last 75 words of 622 total…him in your head.         I don't exactly agree that Mark Twain is the Greatest American Author but I do agree that he is one of the best that there has been and probably will be. He can depict the realities in all of our lives with just a few common folk characters. There is a part of every one of his characters in all of us whether its from foolish old Pap to worried Jim.